marker lights to led marker lights
would like to change the marker lights and tail lights on the trailer to LED marker lights. has anyone done this, is it a matter of just changing the light fixture or is there more involved like chan...
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Bumpyroad wrote:
I question if changing the marker lights to brighter ones would have any effect on safety. brake lights possibly but not meaningful for the effort and cost involved.
bumpy
YES, I believe that in broad daylight with the sun shining in the drivers face driving behind my trailer they WILL see my LED tail lights!
For stop/turn I used the Bargman 84 series triples.
Trust me, these things are a wall of bright red light when you are either turning or stopping. They WILL get the drivers attention.
My trailer sits in my yard with tail lights facing the West and when I light them up with the sun shining heavily from either the East or even west you CAN easily see them. Absolutely no excuse for anyone claiming that they didn't see my lights.
But hindsight, for the cost of the LED replacements for these, I should have replaced with incadescent 84 fixtures and then added LED replacement bulbs.. The replacement cost of just one of the modules is an astronomical $50 EACH. I got smart and bought two sets of double fixtures to keep as spares, much cheaper spare parts.
I had to replace the entire fixture due to the originals having broken lenses and were totally obsolete and no replacement lenses available..
I changed out the markers at the same time, I was lucky to find the old style oval type that fit where the original markers were mounted.. And as good fortune smiled on me, the replacement markers had removable lenses and were not sealed when they started to fail.. I was able to remove the lens, grind down the failed LEDs and replace them with BETTER designed LEDs over top of the old ones.. My replacements most likely will outlast my life..
